Re: Icons for the GUI

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 02/24/2015 02:12 PM, Torsten wrote:
> On 16.02.2015 18:54, John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 02/14/2015 06:09 AM, Torsten wrote:
> >
> > > What about the window-icons of the gui's dock-widgets? Currently, these
> > > are 32x32 png files in libgui/src/icons. I guess they should also be
> > > available as svg only in the repository.
> >
> > I think it would be preferable if they can also be generated in various
> > sizes as required from some resolution independent format.
> >
> > Overall, I think we need to take a look at the icons we are using and
> > try to come up with a consistent set.  It currently seems as though we
> > have a random collection of various icons.  Some are color, others are
> > not and they don't appear to me as if they have any kind of consistent
> > styling.
>
> What do you think of the tango icon set (http://tango.freedesktop.org/)?
> Since qt has an svg icon engine (I have not yet tested it) we could
> directly use the svg-icons included in the tango set.

What icons are people referring to?  It seemed to me that at first the 
Octave GUI was supplying it's own icons, but Qt has many definitions for 
standard operations like "open", "clipboard", "alert", etc.  When these 
are used, the icons match the look and feel of the user's desktop.

Dan